The Atlas of Medieval Man

256pp, profusely illustrated. Brown cloth covered boards. 4to. Bright, clean, square and fresh casing. Internally a hint of toning, else neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (gently bumped at edges, a little rubbed at edges, minor shelf wear). Provides an overview of the world over the five hundred years from around 1000, each chapter covering a century, charting developments in politics, religion, warfare, technology and culture, thus allowing the reader to see what was happening in, say, America at the point at which the Sung dynasty was at its peak in China or what was being built in India when the great Cathedrals of France were rising.